Jon Lord’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra will celebrate it’s 50th anniversary this fall with a Canadian premiere. Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, conducted by Paul Mann, with special guest Bruce Dickinson on vocals, Paul DesLauriers Band, and Pierre Bélisle will perform it at the Palais Montcalm in Quebec City on November 21 and 22, 2019. Tickets for the first show went on sale today and apparently sold so well (seat capacity: 962) that the second show was added immediately.
What: Concerto for Group and Orchestra; Who: Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, conducted by Paul Mann, with special guest Bruce Dickinson on vocals, Paul DesLauriers Band, and Pierre Bélisle; When: 8:00 pm, November 21 and 22, 2019; Where: Palais Montcalm, 995, place d’Youville, Québec (Québec), G1R 3P1; Tickets:Tuxedo Billet.
A couple of updates to our semi-irregular trainspotting department. A bombastic Smoke on the Water rendition is used in the soundtrack for a new Hellboy monster flick trailer:
And here is Bill Murray’s character trying to break cultural barriers with bewildered Afghan villagers in a 2015 movie Rock the Kasbah:
And just to remind you that smoke isn’t everything in life, we present you a couple of these novelty products (which are now perfectly legal up here):
Thanks to Tracy Heyder and Gary Poronovich for the info.
Armenian agency Mediamax reports that Ian Gillan and Tony Iommi will take part in a gala night held in Yerevan on June 5, 2019, to commemorate 30th anniversary of the Rock Aid Armenia project. The event will be held under the auspices of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and will include a public showing of the documentary about Rock Aid Armenia’s all-star 1989 remake of Smoke on the Water. During their stay in Armenia, Gillan and Iommi will also visit the Gyumri Musical School N6, which reopened in 2013 thanks to their efforts for raising money with WhoCares project, charity gigs and donations.
David Coverdale is selling his Lake Tahoe house, and it looks exactly the Valhalla of decadence that you expect a Coverdale’s house to be. Gated on “secluded acreage”, 9,035 sq.ft. (840 m2), 4 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, indoor pool, private grotto, media room, heated driveway, etc, etc. It’s yours for $9,850,000. Continue Reading »
Over the years we’ve featured many weird and not so weird products that were called Deep Purple — from beer, wine, and coffee, to exotic flowers and restaurants. Couple of years ago a cannabis oil popped up on the horizon, we decided to skip it because back then it wasn’t exactly legal yet in this heck of the woods.
Today we present you maybe the weirdest of them all — a mysterious ‘dietary supplement’ powder with unspecified content and purpose, but presumably the right hue for the equally mysterious job.
David Coverdale recently spoke to US radio station Z93. Amidst other things, the conversation was steered to the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame induction, and he presented his version of the events:
It was a complete and utter honor. But I was only concerned about Glenn Hughes; the rest of ’em I haven’t got time for. They prevented Ritchie Blackmore from coming in to be honored as a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer.
So, ex-colleagues, I’m happy they’ll remain ex-colleagues. hey just don’t figure in my life in any way, shape or form. [They have] an entirely different philosophy, ideology and you name it — it couldn’t be more different.
With the UK Government seemingly in deadlock regarding Brexit after decades of Lazy reporting by British newspapers about the validity of curvy Bananas we at THS face a bit of a problem. As an international team with only a couple of folks in the UK and our servers safely residing in Germany the service levels for the rest of the world will continue as normal. Sadly for those in the UK the ‘Communications Received and Promoted Per Electronic Recognition’ act has the likely effect of delaying or blocking entirely our humble little site for those in the UK.
While we wait for the Fools to sort it out we can only apologise for any Contact Lost.
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Ian Paice has guested on the new album Linked to Life from a band called Dark Blue Inc. The album is out on April 26, 2019 via El Puerto Records. It can be preordered via the label.
Dark Blue Inc. are:
Frank Pané (Bonfire, Sainted Sinners), Göran Edman (ex- Malmsteen), Hal Patino (ex King Diamond), Harry “Animal” Reischmann (Gregorian, Sarah Brightman), as well as Lydia Pané and Andrea Vergori.
Don Airey has played a gig in Pratteln, Swirzerland, on March 20. Roger Glover was in the neighbourhood (again), and came up on stage to jam on Pictures of Home. Carl Sentance has a video posted on his Facebook. Because it’s bloody Facebook, we can not show it here, so you’ll have to head over there.
Was a pleasure performing with Don Airey and Roger Glover from Deep Purple at Z7 Pratteln Switzerland it Rocked! Video by Tanja Young 🤘🤘🤘 Don Airey Simon McBride Jon Finnigan @DaveMarks
Gepostet von Carl Sentance am Freitag, 22. März 2019
Japanese publisher Shinko Music Mook has a new book out. Published in December 2018, it is titled Stories and Works of Don Airey and is dedicated to all things pertaining to Deep Purple’s keyboard player.
Contents
Introduction
Don Airey Live Tours In Japan 1980-2018
Exclusive long interview
Don Airey Story ~ From Sunderland to Infinite
Discography part 1: solo albums
Discography part 2: principal contributions
Discography part 3: session work
Singles & EPs label/artwork collection
Nostalgic gallery of Japanese editions “Obi” wrappers
Memorabilia 1: Rainbow 1980 European Tour programme
Overview of the current tour equipment
Equipment used for the 1980’s tours
Column: Who is Don Airey?
History of concerts in Japan (live dates/places/band members/songs played)
Column: Repertoire of the live solo shows
Don Airey vs. Guitarist ~ relations with acclaimed guitarists: Bernie Marsden/Gary
Moore/Ritchie Blackmore/Randy Rhoads/Michael Schenker/Uli Jon Roth/Glenn Tipton/Steve Morse
Over The Top Beyond The Rainbow – Cozy Powell and Don Airey
Neil Murray/Colin Hart
Memorabilia 2: Tickets and flyers
Interview reprints:
1980: First arrival date in Rainbow from “Music Life” July 1980 issue;
1988: 1st solo album “K2” released from “Metallion 4”;
2001: Uli Jon Roth’s visit to Japan from “BURRN!” August 2001 issue;
2004: Deep Purple ‘Bananas’ tour to Japan from ‘BURRN!’ June 2004 issue.
Epilogue
Cover photo by Richard Ecclestone, 5th April 2005.
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